The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-02-21
SHY CHILDREN.
fefSsv should Ise strengthened to BGas
Their Misfortune and to Over-
come It,

come 1t.
Pity the suferings of shy children1
stand between these little ones and the
people who unthinkingly infict pain
upon these tender souls. Why outrage
a child's faith in Nature, human and
material, if he has such faith, or prevent
his acquiring it, by taking advantage of
his shyness and want of self-contidenceP
Why fill him with distrust, with fear,
with terror? Why convert the world
that should be beautiful to him, into
one that is to be dreaded? fthe person
who does these things is anything short
of brute, he is guilty of serious of.
ferse that no carelessness can excuse.
Courage and confidence should BE
stimulat in a child who is shy. He
should e tS1ght to believe that his ex-
creme j sgustis ill-founded, by showing
him the source of his error. A happy
llfe el then be opened to him, where
all lore was desolate. But to inten-
-jfv 5 shyness is an easy matter, and
many children have been made to suffer
the pangs of miserable existence
Avough soaring, terrifying and various
sszSositiOns upon their weak
VI
.1eseroa of stranger, confidence IN
himself AID the stranger also can be
awakened by treating the child with
considerate regard for his feelings and
BY a gentle pressure behind him that
shall force him to overcome them. But
to expose the infirmity and laugh at it
in ridicule, increase the pain and make
the cure all the more difficult, so that
the sufferer must undergo additional
pains when he grows up and must over
come them the best he may in his I'M
avOidable contact with the world.
What a gratifying thing it mus be 20
scare a child-tO fill his heart with hob
COLLINS, to people the darkness with
monsters, to manufacture surroundings
that necessarily menace harm. This
would be amusement to the savage who
burns his captives at the stake, but to
the person living in this nineteenth
century Of civilization it should be as re-
puIsive as savagery itself. How pleas
ing an act it must be to brighten child
to death, as is now and then done, or to
scare the little one till he stands trans
fixed with terror and trembling in
agony.
strengthen shy children to bear their
misfortune and to overcome it; do not
SUBJECT IncHl 10 INi!CUlc Vi hdl. AhCy
can be led out of the manifold unhappi-
moss arising from shyness, by strength
ening each cautious step until familiar
ity makes it permanent; and so, a little
at time, they can be advanced in con-
Iidence and courage until they dare to
look about them without fear of failure
or harm. The impressions of childhood
are often almost ineradicable; people
ShOu1d take care then that those i'm
pressions shall be true. hopeful, giving
self-reliance and courage to those who
need it There can be assault and bat
terry against the feelings as we'll as
against the body, and the former offense
is more enduring and more painful than
the latter. 1t is just as inalienable
right that ones feelings shall not be out
ragged as that his bodily liberty shah not
be abridged, and the shy child demands
immunity and protection from those
who outrage this right by making him 3
victim of his shyness.-GOOd Hoatsebeep'
ing.